Animal sexual touching
79A Animal sexual touching
A person must not sexually touch an animal.
Maximum penalty—imprisonment for 5 years.
For this section, sexual touching means a person touching an animal—
in circumstances where a reasonable person would consider the touching to be sexual, and
whether or not the touching is—
with a part of the body or something else, or
through anything, including anything worn by the person or the animal.
The matters to be taken into account in deciding whether a reasonable person would consider touching to be sexual include—
whether the area of the body touched or doing the touching is a genital area, anal area or mammary structure, including a breast, or
whether the person doing the touching does so for the purpose of obtaining sexual arousal or sexual gratification, or
whether another aspect of the touching, including the circumstances in which the touching is done, makes it sexual.
An excluded act is not sexual touching.
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